{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% set title = 'Overview' %}
{% block body %}
  <h1>Welcome</h1>

  <p>
    OpenLyrics is a free, open XML standard for Christian worship songs. The goal of
    OpenLyrics is to provide an application-independant and operating
    system-independant song format for interoperability between applications.
  </p>
  <p>
    The following features can be seen in OpenLyrics:
  </p>
  <ul>
    <li><b>XML format</b></li>
    <li><b>Multiple languages</b></li>
    <li><b>Chords</b></li>
    <li><b>Transliteration</b></li>
    <li><b>XML schema</b></li>
    <li><b>and more...</b></li>
  </ul>

  <h2>Examples</h2>
  <p>
    Documentation on the song format description can be found on the <a href="{{ pathto("dataformat") }}">
    OpenLyrics data format</a> page and song examples in the available
    <a href="http://openlyrics.googlecode.com/files/openlyrics-{{ version }}.zip">zip archive</a>.
  </p>

  <h2>Implementations</h2>
  <p>
    Projects that support OpenLyrics and also Libraries for a number of programming languages
    can be found on the
    <a href="http://code.google.com/p/openlyrics/wiki/ProjectsUsingOpenLyrics">Projects using OpenLyrics</a> page.
  </p>

  <h2>Get OpenLyrics</h2>
  <p>
    OpenLyrics is available as an
    <a href="http://openlyrics.googlecode.com/files/openlyrics-{{ version }}.zip">
    zip archive</a> containing some song examples, XML schema and a simple Python
    script for validation.
  </p>
  <p>
    The latest development version can be found in the
    <a href="http://code.google.com/p/openlyrics/source/checkout">Mercurial repository</a>.
  </p>
  <p>Get a local copy of the repository with this command:</p>
  <p>
    <tt>hg clone https://openlyrics.googlecode.com/hg/ openlyrics</tt>
  </p>

{% endblock %}
